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From: Catrike Ryder <Soloman@old.bikers.org>
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Subject: Re: Parkinson's
Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2024 05:51:54 -0400
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On Fri, 6 Sep 2024 10:56:57 +0200, Rolf Mantel <news@hartig-mantel.de>
wrote:

>Am 06.09.2024 um 03:39 schrieb AMuzi:
>> On 9/5/2024 6:33 PM, Catrike Ryder wrote:
>>>
>>> Yesterday I, thinking about my upcoming trip to Wisconsin, I found and
>>> contacted an old high school friend and discovered that he's afflicted
>>> with Parkinson's. We talked a while, and he was struggling. It was
>>> hard for me to understand him on the phone. Made me sad.
>>>
>>> Afterwards, I looked up another more recent friend, afflicted with
>>> Parkinson's. It was back when I was going with my then future wife to
>>> volunteer at an assisted home where she was activities director.
>>>
>>> My good friend Jimmy, on my Catrike
>>> https://flic.kr/p/2qegeF7
>>>
>>> I don't know if the blurb on that picture is attached, so here it is.
>>>
>>> We eventually bought him his own Catrike. I'd sneak him out of the
>>> home and we'd go riding in the park against the wishes of his Power of
>>> Attorney, who eventually moved him away and gave the Catrike to the
>>> home. He died soon after that, probably somewhere in his early 40s,
>>> after being confined to another home where almost all of the other
>>> residents were little old ladies who played bingo and did crossword
>>> puzzles.  I was, of course, banned from that establishment.
>>>
>>> **************************************
>>>
>>> He'd had a successfully lawn maintenance business, and was buying a
>>> home. I drove him to his old home and the new owners invited us in to
>>> look around. I took him one day to the Veterans Cemetery so he could
>>> visit his father's grave.  Super great guy, a music aficionado who
>>> regularly presented me with a new song to learn before the following
>>> week. I did my best with them and the other residents, most of them
>>> much older, put up his rock and roll because he was such a great guy.
>>>
>>> Ok..  time for a Brandy...
>> 
>> Yes, those are hard stories.
>> But beyond our will or power. Zen is acceptance.
>
>My brother-in-law recently had a 'brain pacer' installed to aid his 
>Parkinson
><https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_brain_stimulation>
>
>Rolf

Wow! technology at it's very best. I hope it helps him.